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There’s Still Time for Love to Save Us

“Rend your heart and not your garments.

Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.” - Joel 2:13

The prophet Joel warned the people of his day of the pending calamity they would suffer if they continued down the road they were following.

The same type of warning applies to many of us today, and it certainly applies to all of us collectively as humanity. Our lack of care for the world around us, our lack of care for each other, will lead us to more hardship and suffering.

But even in the midst of this dire warning, there was yet a seed of hope. If we sincerely have a change of heart that leads us to changing the way we treat each other and the way we live, there’s still time for us to advert these disasters.

There’s still time for love to save us.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.” - from Matthew 6:1

If we are practicing our religion and spirituality in order to look good or to win the respect of others, then we are doing it for the wrong reasons.

Alternatively, Jesus shows us a spirituality where our prayer simply becomes our way of life.

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

(Live life with awe, wonder and trust.)

your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

(Never give up the hope the world as it should be.)

Give us today our daily bread.

(Stay centered and focused in the needs of the moment.)

And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

(Practice Forgiveness)

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil.

(Always seek to be in the right places, doing the right things, for the right reasons)

This kind of righteousness doesn’t need the affirmation of anyone.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Let’s Give Up Injustice for Lent

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness[a] will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”

Isaiah 58:5-12

I’m Horace McMillon. This is a little more than 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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“So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us…” from 2 Corinthians 5:20

Many Christians around the world participate in a season called Lent. The season lasts 40 days and concludes with the execution, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

Lent begins with an earnest self examination. If it is true that God appeals to the world through the people who claim to know and love God, how we carry and conduct ourselves matters.

Are we showing up with God’s joy, recognizing and being grateful for all the good that is?

Are we showing up with God’s hope, tenaciously holding on to the belief in a better tomorrow no matter how difficult things are today?

Are we showing up with God’s faith, stubbornly fighting through every hardship unwilling to bow down to despair or injustice?

Most importantly are we showing up with God’s love, for ourselves, for our neighbors near and far, for the world and all creation?

How are we showing up in the world?

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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“You are not called to convince anyone. You are simply called to be an open channel for the Spirit of God to flow through.” - Corrie ten Boom

Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 62

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“No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.”

But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

- Acts 10:14-15

Peter and many of the earliest Christians didn’t believe Gentiles could really be Christians unless they were willing to live under customs, traditions, laws, and understanding of Scripture that they already had. Peter’s vision showed him that God has other plans.

Many Christians both over the centuries and today have the same mindset. They think these other folks aren’t really Christians if they don’t think, believe, and act as they do.

This century’s Gentile Christians are LGBTQ Christians. Many Christians believe these folks must be excluded from the community. But God has other plans.

Don’t call anyone unclean who God has made clean. God’s love is bigger than that.

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Grow Deeper Roots

“The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.” - Henri Nouwen

Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 61

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Give to Everyone: Stop Practicing Selective Compassion

“Give to everyone who ask of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back again” - Luke 6:30

This verse comes from the middle of some of Jesus’s most challenging teachings. Jesus is challenging us to think, act, and react differently. The sequence ends with Jesus’s declaration that we will experience our highest level of wellbeing if we do.

So why give to everyone? To avoid making ourselves the judge. To share the mercy, grace and forgiveness that we’d like to receive ourselves.

It’s easy for us to help people who we feel deserve it… people in bad situations through no fault of their own. If we have any love in our hearts, it’s easy to help folk like this.

But what about people who find themselves in bad situations largely because of their lack of character and judgment, because of their poor choices and bad habits? Our well of empathy for them tends to run dry.

We can’t be who or what Jesus we are calls us to be until we stop practicing selective compassion and start practicing compassion universally.

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